Esophageal cancer surgery, according to the scope of surgical resection or different purposes of different surgical sub-radical surgery and palliative surgery, we need a surgical method which is often based on the patient's condition by the doctors to decide. The difference is that two operations: the purpose of the different sub-surgery, the treatment effect is not the same. Patient or family members of patients often do not know how to choose the surgical method, but you can ask your doctor about the situation in order to make a choice. We often say a word: Can surgery, doctors have the final say. Willing to surgery, patients have the final say.
Surgical treatment of esophageal cancer 1. Radical surgery
Radical surgery is total removal of primary tumor and surrounding lymph nodes and even doing the second leg of lymph node dissection is often resection of a large range of great trauma. However, radical surgery can achieve the best effect, and post-operative chemotherapy, radiotherapy lay a good foundation. With radical surgery may have cured, so radical surgery is the preferred means of cancer treatment. Radical surgery is a prerequisite for the early and mid cancer patients, or palliative surgery should be selected.
Surgical treatment of esophageal cancer 2. Palliative surgery
Palliative surgery is a great influence on life-threatening tumor, but not necessarily all of the tumor resection; or not to remove the tumor, but improve quality of life through surgery, the tumor remained in the body. Such as the late lead to esophageal food obstruction, the patient can not eat, and the general condition of patients can still, you can take desolate gastrostomy surgery, with a rubber hose inserted into the stomach through the skin and then transported through the hose to the stomach food , patients can receive the appropriate nutrients to sustain life, but then did not do anything with esophageal cancer, which is palliative surgery. Esophageal stenting is a palliative operation, frequently used in patients with esophageal cancer.